Women Medical Graduates, 1906
Scope and Contents
Photograph of 1906 women graduates in medicine with the signatures of those present. There were two further female MBChB graduates that year: Isabel HILL, Scotland (graduated in absentia) and Marjorie Duake COHEN, India. The graduation ceremony took place on 27 July 1906.
MBChB graduates
- Alice Meredith BURN, New Zealand
- Agnes Marshall COWAN, Scotland
- Jessie Handyside GELLATLY, Scotland
- Olive TREDWAY-LEONARD, India
- Meher Ardeshir Dadabhai NAOROJI, India
- Agnes Ellen PORTER, Scotland
- Edith Gertrude PYCROFT, England
- Mabel Linda RAMSAY, England
- Elsie Blair SAUNDERS, England
- Nettie Bell TURNBULL, Scotland
- Annie Davidson URQUHART, England
- Ethel WISEMAN, England
Alice Meredith BURN, Marjorie Duake COHEN, Alice Marshall COWAN, Agnes Ellen Porter, Edith Gertrude PYCROFT and Ethel WISEMAN were all also awarded a Special University Certificate in Diseases of Tropical Climates at the same ceremony.
Also present in the photograph is Mary Deborah HANCOCK, who took the Triple Qualification at the Royal Colleges.
Dates
- Creation: 1906
Conditions Governing Access
None
Full Extent
1 photograph
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Burn, Alice, 1871-1949 (Medic, Suffragist and Campaigner) (Person)
- Cowan, Agnes Marshall, 1880-1940 (Physician) (Person)
- Gellatly, Jessie Handyside, 1882-1935 (Medical Officer for Health, Cambridgeshire) (Person)
- Naoroji, Meher Ardeshir Dadabhai, 1881-1974 (Indian Medical Doctor) (Person)
- Porter, Agnes Ellen, c1882-1956 (Medical Doctor) (Person)
- Pycroft, Edith Gertrude, 1883-1980 (Person)
- Ramsay, Mabel L., 1878-1954 (Medical Doctor and Suffragist) (Person)
Cultural context
Topical
Repository Details
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